Re: Meta election.

[Charles Fiterman]

At 12:09 PM 10/28/98 +1000, you wrote:
>In Australia the death or unforeseen removal of a candidate elicits a
>new election which is scheduled back to give the new candidates time to
>campaign. It happened in our latest election that a candidate for a minor
>party (Australian Democrats) died (natural causes, I hope) quite close to
>election Saturday. The seat involved has had its elections delayed and was
>reopened for nominations.

The more candidates you have the more chance of a delayed election.
And what if an incumbent dies while seeking reelection now the office
is vacant for a long time.

I think the answer is to have some kind of rule of succession which
allows things to go on as usual. A vote for John Smith is a vote for
John Smith or his delegated successor.


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